Economist US West Coast Correspondent Andreas Kluth observes how his media habits have changed during the last three years in a post on his Hanibal blog. He wrote the post as an evaluation of an Economist special report on the Future of the Media that he wrote in 2006.

Kluth identifies three “layers” of media that he consumes:

• Professional media
  The Altantic and New York Times on a Kindle for “global headlines and mass market news.” Various “publications and blogs including sources not traditionally considered news” via an RSS reader

• Social curation
  Online and offline friends have become media editors pointing out interesting content via email, blog comments and Facebook

• Intimate media
  Content produced by family and intimate friends that by its nature is intended for a tiny audience

It’s a neat summary of how our appetite for media is increasing and how technology is providing the means to edit and filter. In his post Kluth concludes that there is no crisis in media – and that as “one media era of media ends, another [is] starting.”